"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> The page title *is the* top-level heading. Within an article's BV> text, == is the highest level you should be using.
Sorry. I was talking about headings for sections of pages.
---8<--- This is Wiki ''markup''.
==Section 1==
===Section 1.1===
==Section 2==
===Section 2.1===
====Section 2.1.1====
---8<---
(Yes, I know the numbering can be done automatically. Just an example.)
I tend not to think of these things in terms of <h2>, <h3>, <h4> headers, but as structural delimiters in the article. A MediaWiki article renderer for PDF or DocBook wouldn't use <h2> for ==this==, it'd just make a section header.
>> I can totally live with that. I just don't like having >> top-level section headers be different for different pages, >> just to get the output correct.
BV> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. On what sort of BV> page would you do something different?
The main problem is people doing this:
---8<--- This is Wiki ''markup''.
====Section 1====
====Section 2====
====Section 3====
---8<---
...because the rendering of <h4> tags "looks better".
On Wikitravel, we've been standardizing on using =this= (not <h1>, but one equal sign) for sections of an article, ==this== for sub-sections of an article, etc. But if the MediaWiki software expects ==this== for sections, ===this=== for sub-sections, etc., we might as well go with the flow. We've been making policy based on misapprehension.
~ESP